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We will start the report this week by saying thank you, to our kindhearted runners who followed the few rules we have, handed back all our finish tokens and were even kind enough to spread out, so that our timers were not under any pressure. Equally thank you to your volunteers who turned out in force, to ensure a smooth safe event took place.

On a beautiful late summer early autumn morning we were pleased to welcome 15 people making there first appearance at Barking including 7 making their parkrun debut, so welcome to the following; New to Barking Oliver Nottidge, Yuanwei Xu, Michael Moore, Paul Mcgee-Renedo, Fiona Hunt, Sudipta Moore, Sharon Sayed-Moynihan &Brian Walsh; New to Barking and to parkrun, Mark Hortop, Aydin Tekoglu, Dean Chambers, Hanaa Hortop, Leila Al-Rashed, Hannah May & Amy Taylor. We hope you all enjoyed our event and will be back to see us very soon. At the other end of the spectrum although not an official parkrun milestone well done to Stephen Philcox & Natalie Traylen on each completing run 200.

Today's full results and a complete event history can be found on the Barking parkrun Results Page.

The female record is held by Lydia HALLAM who recorded a time of 17:42 on 12th August 2017 (event number 267).
The male record is held by Paul MARTELLETTI who recorded a time of 14:52 on 25th December 2017 (event number 287).
The Age Grade course record is held by Breege NORDIN who recorded 91.10% (21:55) on 7th September 2019 (event number 376).

Barking parkrun started on 28th July 2012. Since then 3,682 participants have completed 30,000 parkruns covering a total distance of 150,000 km, including 4,615 new Personal Bests. A total of 395 individuals have volunteered 4,609 times.

Welcome to this weeks' run report for the Chicago parkrun, well it felt like we were in the windy city ! A strong tail wind helped for a brisk start for our 110 runners, the only downside of Barking parkrun is that you then turn into a headwind along the lake and then spend the rest of the run in and out of the wind. We had a little fun before the event moving fallen branches and lots of general debris but we were able to go ahead safely and the conditions did not prevent 10 of you from obtaining a pb.

In view of the weather we will give first shout out to those who did a pb; so well done to George Scratcherd, Anna Crawley, James Hall, Rohan Sood, Simon Hill, Leslie Jay, Louise Adams, Ilyas Sarwar, Natalie Osei-Owusu & Margaret Byers.

We were delighted to welcome 19 first timers, which included 7 people undertaking their first parkrun ; so a very warm welcome to Barking and parkrun to Nicholas Rogers, Luke Jeffries, Egidijus Vedrickas, Karan Sood, Michael Mwale, Namgidi Ntuli & Jack Dovey. An equally warm welcome to Barking to Simon Leung-Chester, Darren Woods, Kevin Mcaleer, Simon Gosney, Nicholas Mortimer, Neil Mcdonough, Jason Manning, Richard Cossey, Kerry Curtis, Robyn Robertson, Sophie Walker &Clara James. At the other end of the spectrum congratulations to Ray Mitchell for completing parkrun number 200 !

Possibly a long shot but we have lost finish token number 97, this might just be a coincidence, but positions 96,98&99 were Doveys, was there a fourth Dovey without a barcode who may have taken our token home in error? If you have accidentally taken our token home can you return it next week. We have an amnesty policy no questions asked, but as we say in the run briefing we do need these tokens each week, as making replacements can be costly and time consuming.

You may well already be aware of this but thanks to mayor Khan, for the whole month of September travel on the London Overground Gospel Oak to Barking line is completely free (details on tfl website), so if you use this line to get to us you can have a true free run at Barking.

Today's full results and a complete event history can be found on the Barking parkrun Results Page.

The female record is held by Lydia HALLAM who recorded a time of 17:42 on 12th August 2017 (event number 267).
The male record is held by Paul MARTELLETTI who recorded a time of 14:52 on 25th December 2017 (event number 287).
The Age Grade course record is held by Paul MARTELLETTI who recorded 90.47% (14:52) on 25th December 2017 (event number 287).

Barking parkrun started on 28th July 2012. Since then 3,627 participants have completed 29,527 parkruns covering a total distance of 147,635 km, including 4,552 new Personal Bests. A total of 393 individuals have volunteered 4,570 times.

What a difference a week makes in the life of a parkrunner, no need for snorkel and flippers this week, also no need for the waterproof gear for the volunteers !
Firstly welcome to the 12 people making their debut at Barking parkrun, including 3 people making their parkrun debut. We hope you all enjoyed our little event, please feel free to call again. Therefore welcome to parkrun to Wayne Pennington,Rohan Sood & Alice Dovey, welcome to Barking ; Andrew Hartley, Mark Jefford, Ujjwal Shrestha, John Cornell, Emily Quin, Gerard Francis Thompson,Amardeep Singh Rai, Philip Bryant & Theresa Bryant.

Secondly but just as important congratulations to the following who have completed Barking parkrun faster than ever before ; James Taverner, Warren Ibrahim, Clifford Clarke, Simon Hill, Wale Salami, David Pearce, Janet Potter, Valerie Cullen, Hanya Bentomane, David Weaver, Charity Anyika, Natalie Osei-Owusu , Linda Weaver & Evelyn Riches. In amongst the pb's, special mention to David Pearce for completing 50 parkruns, David Weaver for 6 consecutive pb's & Evelyn Riches for taking one and a half minutes off your previous time. We know we say this quite often, we try to look out for landmark runs but we receive no notifications, so just look at the last couple of weeks results to try and spot anyone who is close. So apologies if we do not give you a shout out on the start line, although we will try to mention you in the run report if one gets done.

You may well be going away on your summer holidays in the coming weeks, so remember to take your barcode with you, as you can participate anywhere in the world, as long as you have it with you. The downside of this is obviously if our regular helpers are away on holiday, we still need volunteers to make the parkrun magic happen. To this end please take a moment to have a look at the volunteer roster for future events and consider putting your name forward, either by email or on our facebook page, as obtaining the required helpers can be difficult during the summer months.

This week 97 people ran, jogged and walked the course, of whom 12 were first timers and 14 recorded new Personal Bests. Representatives of 15 different clubs took part.

Today's full results and a complete event history can be found on the Barking parkrun Results Page.

The female record is held by Lydia HALLAM who recorded a time of 17:42 on 12th August 2017 (event number 267).
The male record is held by Paul MARTELLETTI who recorded a time of 14:52 on 25th December 2017 (event number 287).
The Age Grade course record is held by Paul MARTELLETTI who recorded 90.47% (14:52) on 25th December 2017 (event number 287).

Barking parkrun started on 28th July 2012. Since then 3,607 participants have completed 29,417 parkruns covering a total distance of 147,085 km, including 4,542 new Personal Bests. A total of 393 individuals have volunteered 4,561 times.

SALLY BRIDGE & ANNETTE PRIOR 500 parkruns completed equally between them congratulations both on completing 250 each today, whilst handcuffed together. (Couldn't get your names up in lights, sorry best we could do). Whilst not an official parkrun milestone well done to Harmander Singh for completing parkrun number 300!. At the other end of the scale we were delighted to welcome 6 people undertaking their first parkrun, Mathew Morris, Momoko Morikawa, Cherone Johnson, Pahris Cotterell, Aiswarya Kurup & Sarah Bikwa, thank you for choosing to join us at Barking. We hope you had fun and will be back to see us again very soon, don't forget we are here every Saturday at 9 am.

We were also pleased to welcome the following tourists this week. Tom Carnall, Gary Hobbs, Malgorzata Kucharska, Stephanie Helen Robinson, Tanith Cook, Sophie Moore, Kat Hill, Rachel Dowling, Simon Randle & Tony Sykes, likewise we hope you had fun, and obviously you are all welcome back at any time.

Despite the heat we had our usual fairly high number of personal bests, so congratulations to the following for finishing Barking parkrun faster than you have ever done before; Ibrahim Bashiru, George Scratcherd, Boaz Micah, James Hall, Eamonn Connolly, Saif Khan, Rajesh Muthusamy, Valerie Cullen, Charity Anyika, David Weaver, Irma Cernychien, & Linda Weaver. Watch out for David he could be the new Michael .

We are reasonably well fixed for volunteers for next week although there are a few gaps if you can help; however the following week 13th July coincides with the spitfire scramble and many of our core team are unavailable for parkrun, so we would love to hear from anyone who can help out at this event. You can either email to barkinghelpers@parkrun.com or contact us through our facebook page. On the subject of facebook you might find it useful to like our page as this is the easiest way we have of giving you any updates, and advice for upcoming events.

Today's full results and a complete event history can be found on the Barking parkrun Results Page.

The female record is held by Lydia HALLAM who recorded a time of 17:42 on 12th August 2017 (event number 267).
The male record is held by Paul MARTELLETTI who recorded a time of 14:52 on 25th December 2017 (event number 287).
The Age Grade course record is held by Paul MARTELLETTI who recorded 90.47% (14:52) on 25th December 2017 (event number 287).

Barking parkrun started on 28th July 2012. Since then 3,538 participants have completed 28,903 parkruns covering a total distance of 144,515 km, including 4,473 new Personal Bests. A total of 393 individuals have volunteered 4,505 times.

Well, it felt like summer had finally arrived today, and it brought with it one of our highest turn-outs at Barking parkrun for a non-Christmas day run. This week 141 people ran, jogged and walked the course, including 17 first timers to Barking, of whom six were first timers to parkrun too (welcome to Sam Ferguson, Amie Macklin-Proffitt, Rajesh Muthusamy, Keely Perry, Vilma Bieliunaite, and Natalie Radcliffe). It was also good to see quite a few people coming along for their second run – hopefully that means they’ve already become addicted to parkrun! We also saw 17 new Personal Bests this week, including from Jason Li, who celebrated his birthday the day before and treated us to cakes and some much-needed orange squash.

For those of you interested in a bit of local history, I mentioned that it was the 108th anniversary of the great oak tree of Barking Park. The tree was planted in the middle of the park on 22 June 1911 to celebrate the coronation of King George the 5th, the grandfather of the current Queen. Oak trees live for 200 years on average, though the oldest oak tree in England (in Lincolnshire) is estimated to be over 1,000 years old. Oaks are the tree most likely to be hit by lightning, so best to keep away from the Barking Oak if you are caught in a storm while in the park!

Back to parkrun, and today’s event was made possible by 13 wonderful volunteers:

Parkrun is organised by volunteers; they’re just normal people like you and me, but they’re also extra special people because they help put on our fantastic event every week. If you would like to help one week, please drop us a line at barkinghelpers@parkrun.com and let us know when you are available and what role you would like to try. The full roster, which lists all the key roles, can be found at https://www.parkrun.org.uk/barking/futureroster/.

The first three men across the line today were:

1. Liviu Ionita in 16:34 (new PB)

2. Joe Stacey in 18:44(new PB)

3. Diarmuid Mac Donnell in 19:20

The first three women across the line were:
1. Virginia SILIO in 20:39 (first timer at Barking parkrun)
2. Carolina Chisolm in 24:45 (new PB)
3. Charlotte Owen in 25:29

The female record is held by Lydia HALLAM who recorded a time of 17:42 on 12th August 2017 (event number 267).
The male record is held by Paul MARTELLETTI who recorded a time of 14:52 on 25th December 2017 (event number 287).
The Age Grade course record is held by Paul MARTELLETTI who recorded 90.47% (14:52) on 25th December 2017 (event number 287).

Barking parkrun started on 28th July 2012. Since then 3,522 participants have completed 28,775 parkruns covering a total distance of 143,875 km, including 4,461 new Personal Bests. A total of 393 individuals have volunteered 4,495 times.

With the vagaries of London's public transport system, your volunteer team often turn up to get things set up, to be greeted by the popular orange hue of parkrun's visitor/tourist t-shirts on smiling faces around 0815 on Saturday mornings. This time round, Kathryn Berry (home turf of Guildford, but a seasoned tourist attempting to chalk off all the London events in the coming few months), and Eden Grey (from Washington DC, USA) were our tourist welcoming committee, building in extra time to make sure they didn't miss out on their weekly parkrun community fixes.

So it turns out that Eden is in the UK for a week, and after scouring the parkrun UK events website, chose Barking as her stop-off point. We obviously couldn't let the moment pass. After further enquiry, we discover that state-side, Eden is a regular blogger and part of the 'barkrun' community, combining their love of our canine friends with a devotion for parkrun! Our event name combines both of her passions, so no transatlantic trip could be complete without discovering our own corner of east London! Well, Eden, we are glad you chose us, and hope that your first experience of a London 'greasy spoon' at the Daily Munch cafe, Faircross Parade afterwards was as much an enjoyable experience!

Eden and Kathryn were among 18 first-timers. And while both are forgiven if this ends up being their only visit to Barking parkrun, we hope all of the other first-timers, and particularly those who also began their parkrun journeys this weekend, come back as often as possible and take part. You will all be made very welcome when you do.

We were also pleased to help a couple of celebrating milestoners at the start line. Mahbub Khan, a member of local running club Barking Road Runners, chalked up the 150 milestone today, and we also cheered heartily for Justin Chisholm, who reached his '100. Well done, both. As always, we try to look out for upcoming milestones, but a quick tug on the sleeve of your Run Director beforehand guarantees we always get the announcement in, and you get your deserved accolade!

One of our favourite PBs of the day belongs to W70-74 age-grouper Evelyn Riches. Having taken on the course for a twentieth time, and with family and friends there every step of the way, she crossed the line for the first time under the hour mark! Congratulations, Evelyn! Evelyn was one of eight people recording a personal best this week - well done one and all!

And the eagle-eyed among you will realise that we are just over a month away from our 8th Birthday. Your core team will start kicking around ideas about how we might mark the occasion. While none of us claim to have connections with senior members of the royal family, or could call in favours from the RAF's Red Arrows,we welcome any suggestions from you Barking regulars about how we could mark the occasion on the last Saturday in July.

This week 122 people ran, jogged and walked the course, of whom 18 were first timers and 8 recorded new Personal Bests. Representatives of 18 different clubs took part.

The female record is held by Lydia HALLAM who recorded a time of 17:42 on 12th August 2017 (event number 267).
The male record is held by Paul MARTELLETTI who recorded a time of 14:52 on 25th December 2017 (event number 287).
The Age Grade course record is held by Paul MARTELLETTI who recorded 90.47% (14:52) on 25th December 2017 (event number 287).

Barking parkrun started on 28th July 2012. Since then 3,505 participants have completed 28,634 parkruns covering a total distance of 143,170 km, including 4,444 new Personal Bests. A total of 393 individuals have volunteered 4,482 times.

Welcome to this weeks pb report, 18 this week,so as is becoming the norm you get first mention in the weekly epistle. Congratulations to the following for completing Barking parkrun faster than you have ever done before. John Whitehead, Barry Smith, Stephanie Phillips, Clifford Clarke, Peter Langan, James Hall, Luke Junior, George Edwards, Carla Burchell, Michelle Seidel, Greg Adams, Keshav Daby Valerie Cullen, Jo Hines, David Muir-Clarke, Aurelien Nguimbi, Annie M Nguimbi & Jo Skam. Regrettably we are unable to record another pb for Michael, although this is not too surprising as he was not here this week, we look forward to normal service being resumed in the near future.

Special mention to Lorna Beecher and Sonya Veerasamy who completed runs 50 and 150 respectively. Further special mention to Junior Reed for completing your first parkrun, we hope you enjoyed it and will be back very soon. Welcome to 6 tourists this week, Ian Punter,Stephen Pattison, Brian Brooks, Paul Thomas, Dorothea Calitz & Anthony George Blignaut. A big hello to Dorothea & Anthony who joined us this week from Richards bay parkrun, which is a parkrun in South Africa, not too far from Durban, whilst not 100% sure we assume you are visiting the UK in general and didn't just come specifically to do Barking parkrun. Either way it was lovely to see you and we hope you enjoyed our little event in a foreign country.

You know you are in a British summer when one week you are in shorts seeking shade to keep cool and then the following week you are concerned that the coat might not be warm enough. Very early indications are that the weather will be a bit kinder next week, although obviously it is early days so we shall see. We are putting a slightly lower attendance this week down to the inclement weather. As usual we are short of volunteers for the upcoming events, particularly next week, so if you can help your run director Andy, to ensure that the event can go ahead we would love to hear from you either on our Facebook page or by email to barkinghelpers@parkrun.com.

Today's full results and a complete event history can be found on the Barking parkrun Results Page.

The female record is held by Lydia HALLAM who recorded a time of 17:42 on 12th August 2017 (event number 267).
The male record is held by Paul MARTELLETTI who recorded a time of 14:52 on 25th December 2017 (event number 287).
The Age Grade course record is held by Paul MARTELLETTI who recorded 90.47% (14:52) on 25th December 2017 (event number 287).

Barking parkrun started on 28th July 2012. Since then 3,487 participants have completed 28,512 parkruns covering a total distance of 142,560 km, including 4,436 new Personal Bests. A total of 392 individuals have volunteered 4,473 times.

Oh what a lovely morning,where to start this week ? very close call but we have to start again with pb's. As your run director i was quite happy standing in the shade, but 23 of you decided that the heat didn't matter one jot and were going to complete Barking parkrun faster that ever before. I am grateful for modern technology as i feel i would have needed at least 2 quills and would need to refill the ink pot several times in days gone by. Huge congratulations to the following ; Paul Martin, Joe Stacey, Jason Champion, Christopher Couriour, Jason Canham, Matthew Michael, Anna Crawley, Simon Skelt, Praveen Kilaru, Andy Cumella, Jitesh Joshi, Charlotte Dsa, Liliya Keremidova, Gary Thomas, Michael Warminger, Allan Bailey, Ally Butt, Louis Magibile, Charity Anyika, Lisa Johnson, Michael O'connor, Rina Patel & Irma Cernychiene. Yes Michael is there again, having so far completed every parkrun with a pb.

Two milestones today Richard Melville 50 and Lianne Slaughter 150, well done both. Thank you to the volunteers who made your event possible, i know we say this every week but we really can't go ahead without you. For those of you who do not volunteer, if you all stepped forward a couple of times a year (not much to ask) we would have little or no problem getting the numbers we require, and it would allow those who give up their run for you, to participate a little more often.

Another fantastic array of first timers including 11 people making their parkrun debut, we hope you all enjoyed our little event and will be back to see us again very soon. Welcome to Barking and to parkrun to James Hall, Clifford Clarke, Peter Langan, Luke Junior, Carla Burchell, Joe Davies, Valerie Cullen, Jo Hines Aurelien Nguimbi, Annie M Nguimbi & Jo Skam. Welcome to Barking to Matthew Daniel Nelson, Alice Whiley, Boaz Micah, Grzegorz Ciszewski, Sarah Swan, Hannah Connor, Matthew Frost, Phillip Starling & Sophie Barker.

Answers on a postcard to the usual address, can you spot the 12 runners from today who have 2 traditional first names as their name ?( eg Steve James) no i haven't given you the first one Steve James was not here today, also can you spot our 2 ' celebrity' runners, think radio and snooker. Thank you all for your attendance,and for observing the few rules that exist, we bang on about needing volunteers but obviously if we don't have runners then we don't need the volunteers.

Today's full results and a complete event history can be found on the Barking parkrun Results Page.

The female record is held by Lydia HALLAM who recorded a time of 17:42 on 12th August 2017 (event number 267).
The male record is held by Paul MARTELLETTI who recorded a time of 14:52 on 25th December 2017 (event number 287).
The Age Grade course record is held by Paul MARTELLETTI who recorded 90.47% (14:52) on 25th December 2017 (event number 287).

Barking parkrun started on 28th July 2012. Since then 3,480 participants have completed 28,409 parkruns covering a total distance of 142,045 km, including 4,418 new Personal Bests. A total of 390 individuals have volunteered 4,460 times.

Here we go again i say here we go again, this week no less than 20 pb's, so you get promoted to the first item on the run report. Massive congratulations to the following, and yes Michael did get his weekly pb, Alexander James Ferraby, Christopher D'Netto, Sameena Ahmed, Joshua Olarewaju, Andy Page, Peter Burdett, Robert Hickey, Ed Davey, Praveen Kilaru, Dean Toussaint, Pip Harrington, Sarhan Alim, Oliver Ball, Nicola Ball, Samuel Egembah, Graeme Rodway, Vaide Grainiena, Michael O'connoor, Harrison K H Li, and Sabrina Rodway.,

Secondly but just as important thank you to the volunteers who made your parkrun possible. As we say most weeks we are short of volunteers for next week so if you can help let us know either on our facebook page or by email to barkinghelpers@parkrun.com.

We were delighted to welcome 12 first timers today including 5 people making their parkrun debut, so welcome to Barking and to parkrun to, Hanna Janik, Helen Ayres, Michael Warminger, Rina Patel & Allan Bailey.. Welome to Barking to Danny O'reilly, Conor Brown, Guy Surtees, Paul Cook, Jason Casey, Fei Wang &Simon Skelt. You know where we are every Saturday so please feel free to come back and see us again.

Now we like a challenge at parkrun , and we are capable of adjusting/manipulating the results but we had two people crossing the line in error today which made the result processing more difficult this week. We had 1 person who was not competing cross the line and 1 who had already finished going back to support a friend, then crossing the line for a second time. Can we please ask that if you have completed your run please do not cross the line a second time, as we can not expect our timekeepers to be aware that you have already finished, as they are concentrating on getting the times correct, and not able to identify those who have already completed their run.

As we said last week our local ambassador will be joining us next week, please say hello to Mary and if you have any thoughts about parkrun either Barking or in general i am sure she would be happy to talk to you.

This week 125 people ran, jogged and walked the course, of whom 12 were first timers and 20 recorded new Personal Bests. Representatives of 17 different clubs took part. The event was made possible by 14 volunteers: Samia CHOUDHURY • Alison FRYATT • Robert COURTIER • Harmander SINGH • Mick MOOHAN • Barry CULLING • Chris HESLEGRAVE • Denise GRAHAM • Jason J M LI • Gwyneth M W LI • Irma CERNYCHIENE • Charity ANYIKA • Dion BROWN • Liz PEARCE Today's full results and a complete event history can be found on the Barking parkrun Results Page. The female record is held by Lydia HALLAM who recorded a time of 17:42 on 12th August 2017 (event number 267). The male record is held by Paul MARTELLETTI who recorded a time of 14:52 on 25th December 2017 (event number 287). The Age Grade course record is held by Paul MARTELLETTI who recorded 90.47% (14:52) on 25th December 2017 (event number 287). Barking parkrun started on 28th July 2012. Since then 3,460 participants have completed 28,278 parkruns covering a total distance of 141,390 km, including 4,395 new Personal Bests. A total of 388 individuals have volunteered 4,449 times.

A big thank you to your volunteers today, we started the week with a run director and a tail walker, but very quickly managed to fill all the roles and even had some marshals available to guide you round.Congratulations to our 2 milestone runners this week; Lili Maroti & Beatrice oguntayo, who both completed their 50th runs today.

Repetitious repeating of repeated comments about the duplicating and echoing of parkrun statistics sees us copying and imitating this section of the run report as we once again mention those of you who obtained a pb, 14 this week keeping up with recent weeks. Very well done to ;Samuel Burdett, Karan Gadhia, Jijeesh Aliyan Kandy, Sachin Dodia, Jason Freeman, Jason Li, Rosalia Dodkins, Donna Ball, Stuart Young, Louis Magibile, Charity Anyika, Anne Macaulay, Shanaze Julie & Michael o'connor. Interesting fact Michael O'connor who is very new to parkrun has achieved a pb on each of his runs so far if this continues in about a year assuming this trend continues he will finish before the run starts.

We were delighted to welcome 13 first timers this week including 3 parkrun newbies, so welcome to Barking and to parkrun to Jonathon Singer, Praveen Kilaru & Emily Attridge; welcome to Barking to Liam Tollinton, Mark Gillam, Geoff Chamberlain, John Flynn, Emma Dodkins, Stephanie Elsey, Tommy O'connor, Sheila Bower, Lara Adeyika & Lucy Walker. Needless to say you are all welcome back at any time, (well we say anytime what we really mean is on a Saturday at about 9 o'clock in the morning).

A note for your diaries in 2 weeks (1st June) we are being visited by our local parkrun ambassador, Mary Burkett, who has very kindly offered to be our tail walker. This does not affect you in any way she is just here to observe and make sure that Barking is being run correctly, although if you have any thoughts or concerns about parkrun in general she may be able to offer assistance.

This week 121 people ran, jogged and walked the course, of whom 13 were first timers and 14 recorded new Personal Bests. Representatives of 15 different clubs took part.

Today's full results and a complete event history can be found on the Barking parkrun Results Page.

The female record is held by Lydia HALLAM who recorded a time of 17:42 on 12th August 2017 (event number 267).
The male record is held by Paul MARTELLETTI who recorded a time of 14:52 on 25th December 2017 (event number 287).
The Age Grade course record is held by Paul MARTELLETTI who recorded 90.47% (14:52) on 25th December 2017 (event number 287).

Barking parkrun started on 28th July 2012. Since then 3,448 participants have completed 28,153 parkruns covering a total distance of 140,765 km, including 4,375 new Personal Bests. A total of 387 individuals have volunteered 4,435 times.